Hilled by Cigarettes.
As the result of an attempt to see how many cigarettes he could smoke in half an hour to win a wager, a fourteen-year-old lad named Ellwell, in Chicago, bas just met with his death. It appears from the New York Tribune that a number of newsboys were talking of cigarette-smoking, and one of the crowd urged Ellwell to see bow many be conld smoke in half an hour. A small wager was made, and two packages of cigarettes purchased. Tbe boy was lighting his twentieth cigarette wben the halfhour was up. The lad was taken sick during the night, and he died in the morning. The coroner's officials, who investigated the case, said tbat death was due to excessive cigarette-smoking, and more directly to tbe large number which the boy had just smoked.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 133, 4 December 1896, Page 2
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137Hilled by Cigarettes. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 133, 4 December 1896, Page 2
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